mynews@school Week of Oct. 20

To: mynews@school Teachers
From: Paula Poindexter

Good morning!

Today begins the week of October 20 when we turn our attention to the lead story and the front page. The attached Q&A with Fred Zipp, the editor of the Austin American-Statesman, will give you and your students insight into how editors use the front page to signal to readers what is important. This Q&A will also serve as context as your students read and discuss the stories in the newspaper. It will be interesting to see how the criteria they use for picking what they think should be the lead story compares with what the editor said.

Please remember to follow this week's activity, including free reading of the newspaper, group discussion, and student-led class discussion. The story that your students pick as the lead story and their criteria for selection should be e-mailed to me at ppoin@aol.com and posted at http://mynewsatschool.blogspot.com/. Please use the format below for your students' pick for lead story:

School/Grade:
Headline:
Byline/Author:
Date Story Published:
Section of Newspaper:
Page Number Story Begins On:
Criteria for Selection:

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Have a great week!

Paula Poindexter
mynews@school
School of Journalism
University of Texas at Austin